Ultimate Poem

...this comes to us from my Newzinetter #4 (you can see the whole thing on the main page at http://www.ryanfanclub.com for a limited time) and it's very inspired by one of my childhood heroes from the 80's.  You can probably guess who.

Ultimate Poem
a poem by ryan fan club

a "self-portrait" I did in 1998.

let the clear discovery of the unknown journey
be made fully known within my eternity
that a man can be tested and fail upon his skill
or even witness one’s own destruction of will
for the outside suffering feels no real pain
and the inside insignificance falls like acid rain
we are living on the tail of the crashing comet
with only ourselves to collect the full debt
you owe nothing
unless you owe it to yourself
so speak with your lips in a closed position
and hear the words as a true acquisition
there is no fear in this realm for fear is absent
you can reach until the memory is distant
but do not continue to hold your hand out
forever, waiting for powers to come about
because only you alone can destroy panic
and administer your life in ways so tyrannic
that even the most royal of normal people
will watch for you upon that golden steeple
and wait with prayer for an approximate
measuring to declassify the illegitimate
but they know absolutely nothing of the ultimate;